Functions at work — Work data 2026 | Stack Overflow Developer Survey

Question

In a typical week, which of the following activities are part of your work? Select all that apply.

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Data

	Respondents	Percent
Writing, editing, or generating code	22,221	89.9%
Debugging or troubleshooting	20,573	83.2%
Reviewing code, pull requests, or technical changes	16,494	66.7%
Making technical design or architecture decisions	15,679	63.4%
Answering questions from teammates, customers, users, or stakeholders	14,754	59.7%
Planning, scoping, or estimating work	14,202	57.5%
Writing or updating documentation	13,918	56.3%
Deploying or releasing software	12,800	51.8%
Writing or maintaining tests	12,618	51.1%
Changing production code, systems, or infrastructure	12,334	49.9%
Investigating an incident, outage, or production issue	11,486	46.5%
Monitoring systems, logs, metrics, or alerts	10,955	44.3%
Maintaining dependencies, packages, or development environments	9,720	39.3%
Coordinating work across teams or functions	7,974	32.3%
Finding or fixing security, privacy, or compliance issues	7,754	31.4%
Onboarding to a new project, tool, system, or codebase	5,732	23.2%
Analyzing data, reports, or business metrics	5,722	23.2%
None of the above	834	3.4%

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|  | Respondents | Percent |
| --- | ---: | ---: |
| Writing, editing, or generating code | 22,221 | 89.9% |
| Debugging or troubleshooting | 20,573 | 83.2% |
| Reviewing code, pull requests, or technical changes | 16,494 | 66.7% |
| Making technical design or architecture decisions | 15,679 | 63.4% |
| Answering questions from teammates, customers, users, or stakeholders | 14,754 | 59.7% |
| Planning, scoping, or estimating work | 14,202 | 57.5% |
| Writing or updating documentation | 13,918 | 56.3% |
| Deploying or releasing software | 12,800 | 51.8% |
| Writing or maintaining tests | 12,618 | 51.1% |
| Changing production code, systems, or infrastructure | 12,334 | 49.9% |
| Investigating an incident, outage, or production issue | 11,486 | 46.5% |
| Monitoring systems, logs, metrics, or alerts | 10,955 | 44.3% |
| Maintaining dependencies, packages, or development environments | 9,720 | 39.3% |
| Coordinating work across teams or functions | 7,974 | 32.3% |
| Finding or fixing security, privacy, or compliance issues | 7,754 | 31.4% |
| Onboarding to a new project, tool, system, or codebase | 5,732 | 23.2% |
| Analyzing data, reports, or business metrics | 5,722 | 23.2% |
| None of the above | 834 | 3.4% |

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